תַּמְרוּר
tamrûwr · H8563 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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bitterness
Literally: bitterness; hence: state in which humans are experiencing emotions of anger, resentment, and grief
ExamplesJeremiah 6:26 Daughter of my people, put on sackcloth And roll in ashes; Mourn as for an only son, A most bitter mourning. For suddenly the destroyer Will come against us.
Jeremiah 31:15 This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, Lamenting and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; She refuses to be comforted for her children, Because they are no more.”
Hosea 12:14 Ephraim has provoked God to bitter anger; So his Lord will leave his guilt for bloodshed on him And bring his disgrace back to him.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כַּעַסto provoke to anger 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בְּכִיweeping 1
- מִסְפֵּדmourning 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- תַּאֲנִיָּה taʼănîyâh · H8386 · mourning
- Both lexemes legitimately belong to the grief/emotional distress semantic space: תַּאֲנִיָּה (taʼănîyâh, H8386) denotes a state of mourning/heaviness, while תַּמְרוּר (tamrûwr, H8563) denotes bitterness (often emotional). These are near-synonyms within the broader domain of negative emotional states related to grief.
- תּוּגָה tûwgâh · H8424 · grief
- Both words describe negative emotional states, sorrow and heaviness in one case and bitter distress in the other, in the range of grief and anguish.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Angry002001002002
- תַּמְרוּר (tamrûwr, H8563) is a common noun meaning "bitterness," describing grief or lamentation. The quotation "Mourn as for an only son, A most bitter mourning" at Jeremiah 6:26 shows this sense, which does not independently attest the "Angry" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with תַּמְרוּר (tamrûwr, H8564) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
- Grieve002001002013
- This noun denotes bitter mourning, as in Jeremiah 6:26's call to mourn as for an only son with most bitter lamentation.
- Monuments001003002004
- תַּמְרוּר (tamrûwr, H8563) is a common noun meaning "bitterness," describing grief or lamentation. The quotation "Mourn as for an only son, A most bitter mourning" at Jeremiah 6:26 shows this sense, which does not independently attest the "Monuments" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with תַּמְרוּר (tamrûwr, H8564) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8563. tamrur I. [תַּמְרוּר] noun masculine bitterness; — only plural intensive…
I. [תַּמְרוּר] noun masculine bitterness; — only plural intensive תַּמְרוּרִים Hosea 12:15 Hos 12:2t.; — ת ׳מִסְמַּד Jer 6:26 mourning of bitterness (bitter mourning), so ת ׳בְּכִי Jer 31:15 (compare the verb Isa 22:4; Zec 12:10); as adverb bitterly Hosea 12:15 (si vera lectio). — II.[[תַּמְרוּר ] see below ת.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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